Welcome to Percy Project Percy project is an framework especially designed for Cassandra. It's under developing right now. Use this framework, you can manipulate Cassandra in an extremely easy way. Percy is based on Cassandra thrift API. Make a connection: conn = new Connection(ConnectionArgs.HOST, ConnectionArgs.PORT); conn.open(); Create a keyspace: conn.createKeyspace(ConnectionArgs.KEYSPACE, Connection.SIMPLE_STRATGY, Connection.ONE_REPLICATION); Use a keyspace: conn.setKeyspace(ConnectionArgs.KEYSPACE); Create a column family: // Check sample code for Person class conn.createColumnFamily(Person.class); Destroy a column family: conn.dropColumnFamily(Person.class); Destroy a keyspace: conn.dropKeyspace(ConnectionArgs.KEYSPACE); Roadmap: Create and drop counter family Insert and delete record into column family Manipulate counter(increase, decrease) Internal memory IO buffer(weak simulate for transaction support) General DAO and GeneralListDao for batch operation.